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[quote=Anonymous]People are focusing on this case as if there is a real mob of people who got upset because their kid didn't get accepted and they filed a lawsuit.  As with many, if not most, constitutional law cases that get to the Supreme Court, they are brought by an organization that has a particular political/ideological mission and they recruit a sympathetic plaintiff to be the face of the case.  This case was brought by a group called Students for Fair Admission, which was founded by a very white, conservative, guy with an objective of eliminating affirmative action.  They needed to recruit students to get standing so they could file the lawsuits.  Selecting Asian-Americans as the students to use as a front for their efforts was strategic because they believed it would help in their cause to have students from a minority group that has high "objective" stats, but Students for Fair Admission does not have any particular interest in helping Asian-Americans and it would have thrown them over at the first hint that they would not help their cause.  This group, the people running the group and contributing to it, and the justices who may vote in favor of the case, are by no means friends of the Asian-American community.  That doesn't mean that there aren't Asian-American organizations aligned with the lawsuit, but they only got involved by filing amicus briefs after the case was filed.

What that means is the opinion may not actually be written in a way that is best for Asian-American applicants in the long run.  For example, it may provide support for (or at least leave untouched) other non-stats based criteria that benefit white students, which would give universities license to beef those up and allow those students to take the spots that Asian-Americans think will now go to them.  It also means that criticizing Asian-Americans and their kids is probably not the most productive way to think about the case.  They are just pawns in a legal gambit and may end up being unwitting victims.  The groups bankrolling this case would like to pit non-elites and minority groups against each other to distract from their main mission.[/quote]

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